{"id":94275,"date":"2016-07-02T22:39:44","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T22:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/02\/timemachineyeah-roachpatrol-alvangs-can\/"},"modified":"2016-07-02T22:39:44","modified_gmt":"2016-07-02T22:39:44","slug":"timemachineyeah-roachpatrol-alvangs-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/07\/02\/timemachineyeah-roachpatrol-alvangs-can\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

timemachineyeah<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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roachpatrol<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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alvangs<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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can we stop saying that georgia o\u2019keefe painted\u00a0\u201cvagina flowers\u201d she literally hated them being called that and spent decades trying to explain that they weren\u2019t meant to be sexual<\/a>\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

the idea that her paintings were representations of female genitalia was started in the 1920s, and it was an idea first presented by male art critics. she spent most of her career trying to disprove these ideas. they\u2019re outdated, boring, and frankly, sexist. so can we stop acting like it\u2019s\u00a0edgy or somehow feminist, \u2018cause it\u2019s\u00a0not. male artists get to have their art seen through multifaceted lenses but female artists are often reduced to things like this.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

wow i\u2019m angry about this! every art history teacher i\u2019ve ever had, even the women, talked about the\u00a0\u2018sensuality\u2019 of her vagina flowers and straight up said that was like the point of them<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I love O\u2019Keefe\u2019s paintings so much and I get irritated by this joke every time. What she did was so revolutionarily modern. It was about taking things that are small and easily overlooked and making them big an inescapable and forcing you to look at them in a different way. She didn\u2019t just do this with flowers, she did this with dried bones and seashells and alligator pears. Putting you right up close to them so that you had to reconsider them entirely. I have a book of hers, wait – I\u2019m gonna go find it and get some quotes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\u201cWell- I made you take time to look at what I saw and when you took time to really notice my flower you hung all your own associations with flowers on my flower and you write about my flowers as if I think and see what you think and see of the flower – and I don\u2019t.<\/b>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThen when I paint a red hill, because a red hill has no particular association for you like the flower has, you say it is too bad that I don\u2019t always paint flowers.\u201c<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

– Emphasis mine, (Exhibition catalogue, An American Place, 1939)<\/p>\n

Also this has nothing to do with the discussion at hand I just love this other thing she wrote about her painting,\u00a0\u201cThe Shanty.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI often walked through the pasture to the back road and as I walked down past the beautiful juniper bushes the Shanty looked very shabby. It had never been painted and the outside boards were scorched by the sun. The clean, clear colors were in my head, but one day as I looked at the brown burned wood of the Shanty I thought,\u00a0\u2018I can paint one of those dismal-colored paintings like the men. I think just for fun I will try – all low-toned and dreary with the tree beside the door.<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cIn my next show\u00a0\u2018The Shanty\u2019 went up. The men seemed to approve of it. They seemed to think that maybe I was beginning to paint.<\/b> I don\u2019t remember what critics said about it, but when Duncan Phillips saw it he bought it for the Phillips Collection. That was my only low-toned dismal-colored painting.<\/b>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This just cracks me up\u00a0\u201cI think I\u2019ll paint something dreary like men do. Well, that worked out well but I\u2019m never doing it again\u201d what a fucking empress.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anyway don\u2019t dismiss Georgia O\u2019Keefe as being all vagina flowers, I will fight you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

timemachineyeah: roachpatrol: alvangs: can we stop saying that georgia o\u2019keefe painted\u00a0\u201cvagina flowers\u201d she literally hated them being called that and spent decades trying to explain that they weren\u2019t meant to be sexual\u00a0 the idea that her paintings were representations of female genitalia was started in the 1920s, and it was an idea first presented by … <\/p>\n

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